Bandy Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,314]

  On 1/25/2017 at 12:20 AM, Dragon said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bando_(sport)

One of the completely forgotten parts of sporting history.

Possibly the first professional team sport.

It's a small link with bandy but fascinating....

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Definitely makes for some interesting reading

[Finnator123 292]

  On 1/20/2017 at 11:28 PM, Dmitry said:

Men's Bandy FIB World Championship 2017 in Group A will start in  Sandviken in Sweden on Sunday, 29 January.

Pool A:  

Pool B:  

 

Pool A is stronger, so the quarterfinals will be 1A - 4B, 2A - 3B, 3A - 2B, 4A - 1B

 

Teams by number of previous participations in the World championships:

 

USSR + Russia - 36 (17 + 19)
Sweden - 36
Finland - 36

Norway - 34

USA - 23

Kazakhstan - 18

Belarus - 14

Germany - 3

 

The tournament will finish on the 5th February.

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I know enough about Bandy to say, that our group is so freaking strong
I mean KAZ,FIN,RUS and SWE in the SAME group?

[Dmitry 92]

  On 1/25/2017 at 11:57 AM, Finnator123 said:

I know enough about Bandy to say, that our group is so freaking strong
I mean KAZ,FIN,RUS and SWE in the SAME group?

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Yes It's the fourth world championships with this system.

 

Last year Finland lost 4 games and won only 2, but they were with silver medals. 

Edited January 25, 2017 by Dmitry

[Finnator123 292]

  On 1/25/2017 at 10:01 PM, Dmitry said:

Yes It's the fourth world championships with this system.

 

Last year Finland lost 4 games and won only 2, but they were with silver medals. 

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"Win the right games"  works for both Bandy & Hockey

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There was a tight battle in group B. Mongolia won all games in pool A. Canada finished first in pool B.

The quarterfinals are:

 

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After two years outside the world championships Canada won the tournament in Group B after start in pool B! Canada has defeated Hungary 4:3 in the final. It will play in the Group A next year.

 

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World Championship in Group A has started. Sweden easy defeated Finland.

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Russia won its first game vs. Kazakhstan without any problems. 
Norway and the USA started with easy wins in the pool B. 

All of them scored a lot.

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Still no surprises in the pool A. Russia has defeated Finland 6:2. Sweden won too.

In the pool B Norway won again. But Germany lost to Belarus only in the penalty shoot-out.

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Germany's team at the world championship:

 

Viktor Rud, Paul Sr. Savchenko, Sergei Naab, Theo Houck, Hauke Sander, Fedor Mironov, Eugene Maier, Pawel Lytaev, Dimitri Kuzmin, Michael Dunaev, Alexander Kuznetsov, Alexander Kolyagin, Eugen Kudrin, Sergei Bitkov, Aleksei Zigankov, Niklas Laue, Paul Ewald, Paul Jr. Savchenko

 

 

Sergei Bitkov is 60 years old